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Description: | Diorite palette. With black ink, 'Mon P....'. 190x115mm. Neolithic to Predynastic in date. Purchased by Wellcome at auction in 1923. Hard stone palettes such as these made of stones other than greywacke may sometimes be earlier in date than the greywacke ones. They have been found in both Nubia and in Egypt. Examples have been found at Naqada and Gerzeh which Petrie dated as probably Early Dynastic (Petrie 1920, 39-40). One also comes from Morgan's excavations at el Masa'id dated to Naqada III (Needler 1984, 319, 326). Petrie and Needler believed that examples found in Egypt originated in Nubia and indeed there seem to have been strong contacts between the A-Group Nubian culture and Predynastic Egypt. Hardstone palettes are found in Nubian A-Group burials (Nordström 1972, pl. 191) dated 3700-3250BC. A Nubian grave in Kadruka dated to c 6000-6500 BC contained a diorite palette with the remains of an adult male (Pardo Mata 2004, 140). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | Neolithic-Predynastic
Predynastic | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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